Curriculum Vitae
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Lewis R. Blake, PhD
Senior Software Developer
Education
- Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021 — Colorado School of Mines
- Thesis: Enabling Massive Spatial Data Analysis
- Developed scalable statistical methods for analyzing hundreds-of-millions of spatial observations
M.Sc. in Statistics, 2018 — Colorado School of Mines
- B.A. in Mathematics, 2016 — Hampshire College
Experience
Senior Software Developer | Statkraft | Oct 2024 - Present
- Developing data-driven systems for energy management and trading operations
- Building pipelines for large-scale weather, hydrological, and market data analysis
Computational Scientist | Norwegian Meteorological Institute | Mar 2022 - Sep 2024
- Developed machine learning-based air pollution forecasting models for operational use
- Managed contracts for Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
- Applied data fusion techniques for air quality modeling
Ph.D. Researcher | Colorado School of Mines & NCAR | 2017 - 2021
- Created parallel computing algorithms reducing computation time by 75% for massive datasets
- Analyzed geospatial satellite data on HPC systems (hundreds-of-millions of observations)
- Published scalable methods for spatial statistical analysis
Key Skills
Programming: Python, R, C++, SQL, Bash
ML/Data Science: scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, time series analysis
Infrastructure: Git, CI/CD, Kubernetes, HPC/parallel computing